Woah! How maniacally awesome! I hope there’s flame throwers!

Sounds great. Can’t wait…

Sounds interesting, can’t go wrong with some HD explosions. I hope no cameramen were harmed in the making of this DVD.

By the way you may notice that the name is Now “Action Essentials” because this collection is specifically great for Film & Motion Graphics.

Great to hear!!=D Cant wait!!

i can’t wait

Andrew, you are such a tease!

Looks VERY cool.
Will be perfect with my new HV30

Will,

Im a lion, rawr.

Andrew the titan

Who painted this? Anyay it looks great

the first was great. can’t wait for the second.

holy moly cow crap!!! cant wait!! amazing!!

Little slim on the details but I am glad to hear this is in the pipes. Hope you can give a rough date on when this is coming out so I can put some cash aside or budget it in for my workplace.

I really hope this means there is a Riot Gear 2 coming out. I think it was discussed sometime ago. I used Riot Gear the most out of any AK DVD I’ve ordered. Though Evolution is right up there with it. Evolution had better tutorials benefits.

Great. There goes some more dough flyin’ outta my wallet.
You rule.

This post made my day.

Thanks

Any chance on price sounds great A K .

I understand about the danger. I once (way back in the day) hired a SFX company to blow up a tv. My model was behind a 3/4″ piece of foam-core with a hole cut so she could reach through and press a remote control. The SFX guys said the air cannon, squibs and candy glass were perfectly safe. Luckily nobody was hurt. The chards went through everything. After the smoke cleared the SFX crew chief asked me if I wanted a second take. All I can say now is thank God for AE. I’ll be buying this on day one.

clayton light

That is awesome!!
I can’t wait!

OH YEAH, Can’t wait!

Fantastic, Cannot wait for these.
Should be a fantastic new product for all the Action Movie filming fans out there.

By the way Andrew, Did you end up getting my email by any chance?

YES!!!!!!!!! YES YES YES!!!! Thank you! I can’t wait for these, they look SWEET!
-David

release this now! I need it for my upcoming media movie

And the world just got a little better.

Hey, i saw a PS tutorial the other day for making explosions of clouds pics. Haven’t tried it yet, but i’d think a timelapse of some stormy clouds, can make for a fine representation of C4 blowing with Colorama?.

I can’t wait!

Well
Another great product
Thanks & waiting for it

For this project were tutorial ? ;]

Andrew Kramer iam you big fan i am from ukrainian a vaiting this dvd you cool duud plese tel me ven this dvd come

OMG!

I can’t wait!!

about time!!!!!!

Good news as always.
Be careful out there.

Wooohooo!

I only want to debunk a myth: the explosions on Action Movie Essentials were not made filming real things blowing up, but instead they were made in 3D Studio Max and Afterburn.

However, i’m waiting for AME2

sweet!

Brilliant!

Will there be Pal footage or only NTSC

Holy Moley

Oh Shhhnap!

saying in french: grenadiers a l’assault!!!!
(let me slow down before I hurt someone)

huuuuge!

juju..fantastic!!!

Oh MY GOD! WHEN?! WHEN?! Dear Andrew Hurry UP!

Greetings from Poland

huh..i want see the promo..

Andrew will this footage be 2k, 4k and/or anything over 120fps? Any phantom camera footage?

Great Andrew! fantastic!

I just used some of the old “Action Movie Essentials” clips a couple days ago and thought to myself, “I wonder if they gave up on the HD version they talked about way back when..”

Glad to see you are still releasing it!

Maaaan, I cant’ wait!

Where’s the anamorphic lense flare Andrew?
Don’t all promo posters require one? (joking)

Looking forward to this being released

Ooh!

At the side of the box, It says it contains:

Explosions
Rockets
Blood
Smoke
Debris

Can’t wait.

Oops, Mistake, Not ‘Rockets’ It’s Ricochets.

Muy buena imagen , a la espera del toturial ,un abrazo sigan asi

Muy buena imagen , a la espera del tutorial ,un abrazo sigan asi

Sounds great!!
can’t wait…

11:18pm!? My parents made me go to bed at 11:30 and wouldn’t give me a chance to check the site. But moving on, that’s great news. Tell me, how do you film all those explosions and stuff?

BOOOOOOM!!!

Whoooohaaaa

I am sure u made Sam do all the dangerous stuff… so he will be blown, shot, smoked (ehm) and god know what else… for our pleasure.

keep it up, i have just ordered you Pro Scores and i bother the postman every day just cant wait

Excellent….once I get paid, I can buy that, along with the new soundtracks product…..Thanks Andrew. …Now, if you only sold video camera equipment, you would become my all-in-one stop and I wouldn’t need to go anywhere else for anything…;)

Maybe Andrew has the Ark of the Covenant in that box as well for some awesome face-melting action!

great thing!then can you make a tutorial for exploding cars using it??or a van….or er…air balloon if you think so.

It’s gonna be deadly. XD

Any Chance it will be out in the next couple of weeks? Would be great to have them before my final major project deadline is due!

Great work AK!

Sitting Duck

DAMN!! it’s nice!! but i guess that if i have bought action movie essentials, i wont get this as an update like twitch? please kramer answer me looking forward to see what it is

I cant wait… seriously!!

ZOMG I NEED THIS

NICE NICE NICE NICE NICE!!!!! I’ll buy it!

Ohhhh Andrew you are the best xDD

can wait…cant wait….!!

yeeeeeah:D:D hope the promo is comming soon!!

Always up to something. I can identify with you.
Good to see you’re focussing on HD.
I want to buy this because I’m sure there’re useful elements I can put into my short film.

Thank you Andrew

this nice image remined me so much of indiana jones and the crates :D!!

WOOOOOOOOW I WOULD DIE FOR IT

hope you include some sound FX

I wish you had made this back when i did stunt work. I had a Pyro guy detonate a charge early and set a “mortar round” explosion off in my face. Gave me a nice sunburn. Mmmmmm singed facial hair!!!

Hello Andrew and everyone.
Here’s an Israeli news ident. I was wondering if you could explain something to me.

1. First, you see the headline news pictures, that change from day to day.
2. And then, when the graphics kick in, the news pictures are distorted and tilted, before complete dissolve into the graphics.

How is this obtained, since the news pictures change from day to day? Thank you very much.

Cant Wait!!!!

Now when you say soon what is your idea of soon? Mine is less than a month. Is yours two months three months less than a month?

Wow..>! Can’t wait for these stuff. You are the best andrew!!!! Andrew Kramer pancen oye…

Sounds promising Andrew

Very exciting! Great, great, great!

Awesomeeeee!!

I hope the footage will be 1080p

WOOOOOOOOOOTTTTTTT !!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOTTTTTTT !!!

Some burning debris would be cool… cause i spend hours creating those stuff with fume fx and the output isnt very great

This isnt going to be digital stuff like the 1st is it? Cuz some of it was kinda to fake to use for my effects. I am guessing this is sorta like the stuff over at detfilmshd.com right? Cuz thats some GOOOOD stuff lol. Just curious.

BTW the wall paper is SEXY…. amazing lighting and depth…

Nice! Cant wait lol. Can we expect a tutorial on that poster? It looks awesome.

And who says Santa only comes once a year??
Haha, this is fantastic news. Andrew, you’re my Action Santa.

Awsome period

Great, can’t wait to hear more about it. Will we be able to get a discount if we have action essentials 1? Just kidding I’m sure we won’t and you deserve all the money you can get for these awesome products and free tutorials.

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I CANT WAIT

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!

GOOD I LIKE THE POSTER, FANTASTIC WORK. I M WAITING FOR THE DVD.GREAT BOSS

any demo video ?

O My Gosh! O My Gosh! O My Gosh! O My Gosh! O My Gosh!O My Gosh! O My Gosh!

I can’t wait!!!!!!!

YES!!

is the picture of the box animated or real…it is so good i cant tell

Can’t wait for this!
I’ll give you my soul for a copy, or I could just give you some money I guess?
Yeah… that would probably be easier!

SWEET!!!!!
You Must be makin BANK by now!

Hell yeah!!! I’m buying this as soon as it comes out! The first pack was so good…I’ve used it in almost all of my projects

WAUW! CAN”T WAIT TO SEE IT!

Greetz, Holland

…Are you kidding me…. This. is. GREAT!

woooooooooooooaaaa!
1080p,right? 720p would not comply your high-quality standarts.

I see the future: Action Essentials 4 in 4k (when you´re old and grey and own a RED,[ok, there will be much better things when your old and grey, very long time…)

Anyway, really nice poster, (does Action Essentials include the texture and the font of the metal box?)

do not worry Andrew about ridic or not ridic. Just bring it on.

Soon to be starring in Call of Duty 6???

Woo Hoo!!!!

Andrew you did ti again! Action Essentials? that sounds great! But that is a very cool poster!!! Specialy the creepy atmosfere!!! Can’t wait for this!

Will there be any kind of upgrade option for those of us who already have the ‘action movie essentials’ package? Speaking of which, I’ve been using that, and Riot Gear, quite a bit in my recent work. Great tools all around.

I CAN’T WAIT!!
Woo Hoo!!!!!

will there be a promo video for this??

There will be all sort of videos and info when the product gets closer to launch. We’re working away.

ANDREW!!!! UR AWESOME! I LOVE YOU!!

amazing!!! i cant wait!!

I have a feeling this filesize is going to kill my computer.

is all new essentials or same?

WHOOOOOOO!!!! YEAH!!!! WHOOOO!!!! I WILL BE THE FIRST TO BUY!!!!! LUV U ANDREW!!!

Glad to see this is imminent. AME 1 was great but my teen sons wanted more so please release this soon so THEY dont try to blow things up!!!!!

dude….i remember when you said “it will literaly blow your mind”…awesome!!! Make sure you include a tutorial on the product how you made that box…

Simply awesome! Sign me up.

awsome, cant wait man.

YES!
can’t wait for the gallery

Can’t wait! But I’ll just chew some bubble gum in the meantime!

“Live action… blood” Dun wanna be in UR team xD

I laught my ass off this line

“Over 90% of elements are real live action shots, like explosions and blood.”

Blood, like headshots, wounds etc.

No cameramen died.

BUT HELL YEAH I’M GONNA BUY THIS ONE.

what else is in there? the Ark of the Covenant?

so the blood is live action shot?! no way!!

You didn’t!

Wait wait wait!! If no one died in the making of it, it’s crap. sorry. Needs bigger explosions. Won’t be buying.

PLEASE 1080p!!! I would make my own but my neighbours get mad.

Freaking yes! I am sooo excited! Will this stuff also be pre-keyed?

I assume this is all u can eat free stuff. Wow. You rock ma world And Rew

great news , now i get to stare at the products section for 2 months without blinking . cant wait

very cool concept and yet another wanted action pack dvd hoorah to that.this box going on my descktop wallpaper.

awesome

freakin sweet. ill definitely pick this one up.

Great looking graphic!

The distressed air force stencil font looks very cool. As does the lighting. Great job!

“Over 90% of elements are live action shots, like explosions and blood etc.”

Ummm… blood? Live action? I thought you said no cameramen were harmed? Whose blood was it?

niceeeeee

I was also wondering if this was shot on that RED camera you had awhile back or your JVC. Also do you still own your xl2 if so give me a hollar at my email, I might have a buisness deal for you.

We shot on RED with some other high end HD cameras.

que buenaaa…. y un video de demo? como para sorprenderme mas

Nice. I assume Red was used for HIGH Speed Stuff

Just let me know where put put in my CC #

WHOA!!!

WHOA!!!

Real blood elements?

Dude, I think you could have just used some house paint splatters and you could have achieved the same effect. Unless it was a pig’s blood, then its okay, and you put it on the BBQ

Aww man I just got Action Movie Essentials for Christmas
(Love it By the way)

I don’t know when, but I will get my hands on this!

YES!
always wanted a HD version of action movie essentials!
wooop!

Kramer, you are a god amongst men.
Any rough guesstimate of when this is coming out? Y’know, a month? That would be brilliant.

Can’t wait! I’ll have start setting aside sheckles for this one. I’ve gone through all of the DVDs so far, and they’re all awesome. Yep. Even the clouds.

(I actually do more still shot sky replacements than anything else at work, so the clouds really are cool)

NICE WORK, CAN’T WAIT TO SEE IT!
can u tell me the name of the font in the box please????

can’t wait for it to be release. It will really help all of us out.

What?! NO cameramen died?! AND YOU CALL THIS ACTION?!?

I like the cube!!! Are the sides textures in Riot Gear?

oh Andrew,

are these elements going to have variety when it comes to angles and perspectives?

I bought your first Action Essentials pack and it was great, and I use elements that I have bought from other providers. The only problem I have with them is the variety on which these elements are orientated to the camera, sometimes the explosions are angled on a flat trajectory, and head on, when the shots we film for our projects have to be rigidly planned to be shot to the elements we download.

Now I know that this suggestion is way out there, and that such attempts to conform to numerous possibilities and variations that make up anybody’s shots would be a long and costly to you and your team that is putting all of this together. I just want to perhaps suggest, or throw out the idea of how you could maybe expand this package the video copilot team is putting together for your fans

I love you

Could you show us how to do the poster in a 3D program like Cinema 4D?
That would be great! Thanks.

MAN, you’re CRANKING out the PRODUCTS man!!! at this rate you’ll have- like- fifty products at the years end!!! And i will own all of them!

Ten years from now, people will see thousands of smelly homeless hobo’s sitting in the streets, clutching big bundles of DVDs…

Was that poster made in AE? (The high resolution pic’s file name is ae box, so I assume)

It would be a cool, quick little tutorial to show how you made the box, perhaps to work as a promotional tool for Action Essentials, soon to come?

Thanks andrew!

this will rule the universe- cant wait

OMG! cant wait for this

No cameramen harmed LOL

What about animals????

NICE! Guess who just found his birthday’s gift:)! That’s so great!

HELL YEAH!!

this box was found at area-51 and andrew recovered it and hide it in his basment.http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii18/clancy30/ae_box2_00000.jpg

That poster is now my desktop wallpaper. The first Action Movie Essentials was a great product, I’m really lookinjg forward to the new version!

Awesome man, cant wait.

This is awesome, once again a Booming product!

love it

Oh man this sounds insane!! And i thought version 1 was awesome!!

Very nice!

Always there for us aren’t you Andrew

I shot my friend with a pistol so I can get a realistic blood shot, but it wasn’t a good take and he didn’t want to do it again.

cool androw
انت يا معلم جامد اخر حاجه انا حبيت اكتبلك بالعربي
you r very cool androw and i like to write by arabic
all egyption designer loved you

woww.sounds gr8. I love action

No cameramen died.
funny ))))) hahah

Hi Andrew. Is it possible for you to make tutorial on making this marvelous full 3D box? Your efforts would be much appreciated.

Greetings from Europe.

cool!!! i will buy

Man I can’t wait for this! The first Action Essentials rocks.

I admit I was hoping for some waffles or pancakes, but this is still good.

word.

This collection hv video promo or not??

I’m “starving”.That will be great,can’t wait more….
Andrew Rocks!!

With some shot on red, this is going to be an insane deal!! I know Artbeats charges a fortune for red footage and if I know AK’s style he is going to make this the deal of the century. All praise the mighty AK and team.

Will there be sound effects included with this?

i just bought Action Essentials 1 Dang shoulda waited hopefully there’s discount for people witht the first one that be nice But this should be good Can’t wait to come out

Simplemente, no puedo esperar
I CANNOT WAIT …

Awesome, can’t wait!

What will be the approximate release date?

-Thanks, WVD

This is awesome news!!! Hey, anyway there may be a tutorial on how to create the box on your title?

Hows the red, im guessing it handles well? easy to operate and tweak in post? just curious, don’t have to answer.

Oh my god..
Seriously, I CAN’T WAIT !! :D:D:D:D:D:D

hey andrew, i remember reading a blog post of you using a red camera to shoot a secret project with some chick sitting on a couch. Everyone thought it was a nintendo ds but i didn’t know, till i found this on gamestop.com, the new nintendo dsi.

Andrew u are my Hero….lol
i hate who hate you
I love who Love you lolololol

I am so buying this!!!
As EVERYONE else said
CAN’T WAIT!!!!
=D

WOW this looks so cool I cant wait!!!!!!!!!!!

COOL
It’s great!

THIS IS AWESOME!!! PLEASE EMAIL TO NOTIFY WHEN THIS PRODUCT IS OUT. I REALLY NEED IT FOR MY NEXT PROJECT. I MEAN THE HD THING.

I have to admit (don’t take this the wrong way), the first Action Movie Essentials was a bit lacky, most of the rendered footages were mediocre.
The muzzle flashes for example, they were just still frames.

It would’ve made a lot more sense to animate them slowly across time and then use some kind of expression to display a random frame from that animation for every frame in the main comp.
then animate a visibility checkbox on and off to create bursts.

But of course, if the flashes were live footage my point is moot.

Looking forward to this!

Most of the muzzle Flashes from AME 1 were real they are just so fast you only see them for one frame. We did some double and triple-time stuff with this new product but muzzle flashes should only be 1 or 2 frames or they look odd. As far as randomizing, we include several shots from the same weapon to alternate as needed.

This time around we have a budget and over 90 percent Live Action footage.

No camera died so far! Just kidding! I can wait to see all the good stuff inside the box!

Ooops… I mean *Can’t* wait… :s

Can’t wait for it!
GJ Kramer as always

If you could make the flashes last more than 1 or 2 frames, it will be much better in a slow-motion scene.

Any release date or news?
Cuz i can’t wait anymore!

Since you shot some on RED does this mean there will be 2k files? or will it only be HD?

No cameraman died while shooting, but I guess a few died afterwards from sleep deprivation, because I’m sure there will be a lot of high quality stuff on there! Can’t wait.

Hi Honey, I was showing your site to a friend at work. She has a cousin who is taking classes related to your work and thought she’d be interested in seeing what you have to offer. Anyway, I’m at work and must not be too busy, but I also wanted to tell you thank you for going to the dance thing with us. It wasn’t exactly what I had thought but it was fun anyways. Take care, Love Mom

Hi Mom!

^^

Wow. I’m sooooooo excited. Can i just say something Andrew. Theres one thing i love more then the products you have.
Its the fact that over the years we have seen your progression through motion graphics. Its that, that inspires me most. You know when you start out and you great stuff you think is great and then you progress and look back and see how amateur it all looks compared to where you are now.
I have finally started to see this in my work and use you as someone to look up to, a quality to achieve. And each step forward i make you also take one step forawrd giving me a new level to aspire to.
Thanks so much.
James

Sweeter than flowers dipped in honey! I can’t wait for this product to come out

Dude, it’s about time! LOL. I can’t wait.

-Nate

Ummm… why doesn’t my mom post to my blog?

Oh yeah, she doesn’t even know what email is. Now, I remember.

My mum thinks a blog is something you do in a toilet.

hey Andrew. Do you have any idea of how much it is going to cost? and the AME, how many percent of them were real effects?

Best Regards
Aleksander

How much is this going to cost?

thank you andrew please dvd for learning javascript &expressions